September 16, 2020... Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) recently won the right to intervene in a lawsuit brought by police unions against the repeal of 50-a in New York (which had kept police disciplinary...
September 22, 2017Thirteen years after leaving Abu Ghraib prison, and nine years after filing suit in federal court, a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before a judge in Alexandria, Va., on Friday...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice , and the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic at CUNY Law school for the opening of ...
Updated: February 14, 2020
Argument for Saleh v. CACI Int’l Inc. and Saleh v. Titan Corp. – Washington, D.C. Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Argument begins at 9:30am in Court Room 11 E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse...
Updated: March 5, 2009
The ELS along with SALDF and NLG present a screening of the film If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front , nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary, 2012. When: March 29...
Updated: March 20, 2012
National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) was a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit that forced the U.S. government to release...
Updated: July 13, 2022
March 2015" In the overflow room set up for the much anticipated trial over the city's stop and frisk campaign, we came across two unexpected courtroom observers: a mom from Harlem and her 14-year-old son...
April 2, 2015, Paris/Berlin/New York – Today, in a case seeking to hold U.S. officials accountable for the torture and other serious mistreatment of three French citizens formerly detained at...
September 27, 2016Among the senseless beatings inflicted on reality during the presidential debate on Monday night was the discussion of New York City’s stop-and-frisk tactics. Donald J. Trump attributed a nonexistent...
December 21, 2016As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
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